Cross-border legal practice · India · California

A California-licensed attorney in India, for US matters with an India side and India matters with US clients.

Expert testimony on Indian law, cross-border discovery and investigations, executive defense, and due diligence on Indian companies, carried out in India under US rules of privilege.

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Punch cartoon, 1890: a minister at a desk buried in case papers marked Threats, Reprieve and Protest

“Court of Criminal Appeal”, Punch, 19 May 1890. Public domain.

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I am a lawyer who investigates. The work falls into four groups, set out below, and every matter runs under the same privilege arrangements.

A Evidence, Discovery & Testimony

Flagship Expert Witness on Indian Law Consulting and testifying opinions on Indian law, from a lawyer admitted in California and India.

Cross-Border Discovery & §63 Certification Section 1782

B Diligence & Investigations

Due Diligence on Indian Targets Corporate Compliance Investigations Trade & Supply-Chain Compliance

C Disputes, Recovery & Defense

Litigation Support & Asset Tracing Litigation Funding: Recovery Diligence Individual Executive Defense FCPA & Anti-Corruption

D India Regulatory & Enforcement

Internal & Whistleblower Investigations Competition & CCI Investigations Insolvency & IBC Investigations

Representative matters

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A Japanese investor’s first look inside an Indian conglomerate

A Japanese financial-services group needed a large Indian business group and its principal examined before a major commitment, including their record, reputation and political exposure.

Internal & Whistleblower

Expense fraud, verified with the vendors

Every doubtful expense claim was tested with the vendor that supposedly issued it, in two cities, one outside India, and each finding was tied to a numbered exhibit.

Mapping what a group actually owned

US litigation counsel needed the real asset map of an India-rooted conglomerate, including ownership through offshore structures and assets that did not appear in filings.

FCPA & Anti-Corruption

An anti-corruption review before the regulator asked

Nothing had gone wrong, and the parent wanted its exposure in India examined while the review was still voluntary. The review ended in a remediation report the company could act on.

Compliance Investigations

Screening program for a dealer network

Nearly two hundred dealer reports, each at a depth matched to risk: a quick records check for most, and field inquiries for the few that needed them.

Trade & Supply Chain

Tracing bonded labor through a textile supply chain

Whether a bonded-labor recruitment scheme in southern India's spinning mills touched a global retailer's supply chain, investigated at the mills themselves.